Tag: homemade

I’ve been collecting old books to do a variety of upcycle projects for some time now. This first one turned out great! I started with: three-ring binder three-hole punch clear pencil pouch yarn laminated book pages. (LOVE my laminator!) Punch holes all along the outside of the book pages. You can then store the pages […]

It was Daddy’s birthday over the summer! It’s tradition to make him a schwartzwaldekirschtorte–otherwise known as a Black Forest Cherry Cake. You just can’t go wrong with chocolate and cherry! Well, it occurred to me as I was pinning recipes that really I could let the kids “decorate” the cake because it was mostly layering! […]

Happy new year, everyone! Now that we’ve come to the beginning of a new year, I can reveal some of the fun things we’ve made this past year as I attempted a year of all homemade gifts! As some of you may have noticed (those people being friends and family who have received gifts from […]

“I love trash! Anything dirty or dingy or dusty, anything ragged or rotten or rusty! Yes, I love trash!” -Sesame Street’s Oscar the Grouch One of the lessons I’ve learned from Sesame Street sticks in my head because of this song: Happiness is not found in the object but in the perception of the object. […]

Although this post is a year old, it’s never too late to share more fun birthday ideas! For Bean’s second birthday, we chose a theme in line with his all-time favorite book: The Little Blue Truck. For invites, I used Facebook and uploaded a fun photo of Bean: I made the cake myself! Not as […]

Happy Pi Day! In honor of today—3/14—I just had to post about Bean’s favorite food: pie. Any kind of pie. Fruit, vegetable, meat, sweet, savory, you name it. If it’s in a pie, he’ll eat it. If he doesn’t like the soup I make one night, if I strain it, put it between two crusts […]